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2600 Asks: Is Mafiaboy Real?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pretty-darn-funny dept.

A couple of people sent the 2600 story that's currently running about mafiaboy, the alleged brains behind the spate of recent large-scale DoS [?] attacks. 2600 has an interesting claim - that they went on IRC as mafiaboy, and that the security expert who claims to have found mafiaboy was snowed by what they told him over IRC - snowed by lies.

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  1. Tidbits about this "icee" character. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    His homepage is http://www.ender.com/~icee/.

    He dated a girl who later committed suicide, partly due to his idiocy.

    He used to hang out on EFNet #depression.

    1. Re:Tidbits about this "icee" character. by Machina · · Score: 5

      I won't anonymous coward this

      I happen to have been a friend of Cheryl's and I know this, for a fact, is true. Essentially the story goes like this

      • They meet on #depression
      • they fall in love (She REALLY fell for him)
      • Brings her to cali from Hawaii
      • He becomes her "first" (And for Cheryl, this was a MAJOR ordeal/moment in her life).
      • She goes home, happy, and absolutely in love.
      • A few days later, he tells her that he is still in love with his ex, and is getting back with her.
      • Her, being the emotional wreck and depressive girl she is, can't cope and ends up killing herself by throwing herself out th 17th story window of her apartment building

      Needless to say, I have the problems with the man, and I distrusted and disliked him during the brief time she was with him, when I got to talk to her, and I believe he truly did use her and preyed on her weaknesses. She had her problems, but Cheryl was truly a special girl, and I'm still angry for what she did to herself. I don't blame him so much for her suicide, but for his preying upon her.

      Nonetheless, I don't think I've ever hated someone as much as I hate "icee", and I've got no problem discrediting and ruining this predator. I just can't believe I've run into him again, now in the media... it makes my skin crawl. Nothing can repay for what he did to Cheryl.

  2. Who would have thought... by Shoeboy · · Score: 5

    Someone on IRC lying about their identity? It defies belief. I'd write more, but this 19yr old 36DD nympho I met online wants to meet me "alone and unarmed". I'm so excited!
    --Shoeboy

  3. paying the kid's lawyer fees.. by ContinuousPark · · Score: 5

    And his dad's too. I turns out that while they were after this canadian teenager, they discovered while wiretapping his house, that his 45-years-old dad was planning with a hitman to assault or scare the hell out of one of his business associates.

    So, be careful, you never know when the police is coming to get your son =)

    What a strange (and offtopic, I admit) coincidence.

    --


    "All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams". Elias Canetti
  4. I'm not so sure this is fake... by Carnage4Life · · Score: 5

    According th Reuters there are all sorts of ICQ, Usenet and IRC logs that connect Mafiaboy with the crime.

    PS: Read the articles linked to the above article and judge for yourself if Mafiaboy is the real culprit or not.

    1. Re:I'm not so sure this is fake... by mafiaboy · · Score: 5

      Hey, let me set the record straight. I was framed.
      --Mafiaboy

      --

      ->mafiaboy
      don't confuse political expression with vandalism

  5. MafiaBoy is Real... by MorboNixon · · Score: 5

    ...he lives in the heart of you and me, in anyone who's every sat bleary-eyed in front of a CRT at 3-am, anyone who has subsisted on Pop-tarts, Zingers, and Mountain Dew, anyone who has been shunned by society only to find acceptance in the warmth of a x86 processor! Yes, he even lives in you, Scarecrow! Every time you lick the neon Cheet-o residue off your fingers so you won't get it lodged in your keyboard...MafiaBoy is with you...each time the BSOD causes you to flop on the ground like a Pokemon-induced seizure...MafiaBoy is there flinching too!...every time you've told a newbie to try 'this really cool command, rm -r *'...MafiaBoy was laughing right along! Don't you see, Timmy? You can't touch or see MafiaBoy, he surrounds us, invisible yet guiding us. So, when those kids tell you there ain't such thing as MafiaBoy, you tell em' what ol' MorboNixon told ya! And that, ya see, is the real meaning of MafiaBoy. Now let me tell ye how I invented the question mark...